In a recent posting on the blog At One with the World, the writer expresses her feelings regarding the end of the Castro reign in Cuba, along with the end of other scourges of the 20th Century. “There are so many things that I have seen in my lifetime that I swore were beyond my [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Possibilities
Posted in Looking Back on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nowhere to Hide
Posted in technology, wec class on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The other day, I couldn’t remember the web address for the home page of a graduate course I am currently taking on electronic communities and writing. Rather than look it up, I decided to take the easy way out—I did a Google search. I typed in the instructor’s name and the course abbreviation, then hit [...]
Why?
Posted in wec class on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed in the knee by Tonya Harding, the image of an anguished Nancy looking up at the TV camera wailing “WHHHHHYY?” was quite vivid. Of late, I have found myself asking the same question on my two-hour journey home from Rowan Thursday evenings. “WHHHHHHY?” I wail aloud to the trucker [...]
Living in the Global Village
Posted in wec class on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Tribal people, one of their main kinds of sport is butchering each other. It’s a full-time sport in tribal societies…The closer you get together, the more you like each other? There’s no evidence of that in any situation that we’ve ever heard of. When people get close together, they get more [...]
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Posted in wec class on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Several summers ago I had the opportunity to visit the art museum in Chicago where I was able to view the Seurat’s masterpiece of Pointillism, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte. The painting was much more immense than I had expected, consuming a wall about the size of an average bedroom. Seurat was a [...]
What Would McCluhan Think of YouTube?
Posted in technology, wec class on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ineresting.
The Parkway as a Community of Practice
Posted in humor, wec class on February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am writing this as my Dodge Grand Caravan gallops its way down the left hand lane of the Parkway, just past Exit 137. I am returning from a Parent’s Weekend trip to Providence College in Rhode Island. I am topping off this trip with a 200-mile engagement with Etienne Wenger’s Communities of Practice: Learning, [...]
Electronic Shopping Buddies
Posted in technology on February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The business section of this morning’s Asbury Park Press had an article about a web site where shoppers get together on-line to chat about shopping, share information about products, and steer each other to good buys. The website, called Kaboodle, looks and acts like a social networking site and combines two of the things Americans [...]
